Word: weakening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past, the Leftists hastily mobilized peasants and city workers to push the fierce drive few miles to the northwest of Teruel, General Franco's powerful garrison in eastern Spain, 150 miles from Madrid. Again and again the Leftists, backed by war planes, thrust forward in an effort to weaken General Franco's hold in that critical sector lest he succeed in wrecking their communications between Valencia and Barcelona...
...water rose high enough to flow through it. First break in the Mississippi's walls came in a secondary levee at Bessie, Tenn., a few miles from Tiptonville, sent the flood surging across to cut off a bend in the river threatening little damage unless the onrush should weaken the levee on the Missouri side. From Cairo down, engineers held their breath, for the hump of the flood was yet to come...
...season as the result of a broken left wrist suffered Tuesday night. He received the injury after the Penn basketball game while trying to climb down out of the grandstand. Forbush was rated as the second best diver on the squad by Coach Hal Ulen and his loss will weaken the team in that event...
Pete hid out so he would not weaken Slavin's case by testifying. In doing so he leaped from a warm frying pan into some of the hottest fires a contemporary romancer has imagined, was chased by his girls, the police, a large collection of double-crossing friends, including Slavin, who promptly framed him with the crime...
...great body of intellectual disciples who refer to themselves as the "Fourth International." Communists of the Third International hoped this week that the Moscow trial would tend to reduce Trotsky from the status of a great radical ideologist to that of a common instigator of killings and thus weaken his Fourth International in its ideological competition with their Third. Certainly the Moscow trial had the effect of giving Communists all over the world something else to think about instead of why Joseph Stalin had still not sent a single Soviet bomber to aid the Red militia armies in Spain...